# Cuts, lacerations at WAL-MART DISTRIBUTION CENTER 7024
> OSHA SIR `2015052948` · 5/18/2015 · STERLING, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Conveyors-powered, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** WAL-MART DISTRIBUTION CENTER 7024
- **Location:** 23769 MATHEW ROAD, STERLING, ILLINOIS, 61081
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On 5/18/15, an employee was hospitalized after suffering a laceration to the left hand. The employee was conducting maintenance activities on a pallet conveyor.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*